I Married the Terminally Ill Emperor - Chapter 93
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I Married a Terminally Ill Emperor
Chapter 93
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Emperor’s Office.
When Oreon appeared with a haggard face, Emperor Gray frowned.
“What were you doing that you’re only coming now?”
“I was working! I’ve been caught by the Princess until now preparing for the wedding.”
At his superior’s reproachful tone, Oreon strongly asserted his innocence.
“You were caught by Dahlia until now?”
The Emperor’s gaze turned toward the window. It was already a dark night with dusk having fallen.
“Don’t even mention it. Once she starts something, she sees it through to the end. I barely managed to escape by persuading her that she absolutely couldn’t spend the first day of the Foundation Festival like this.”
Emperor Gray listened to his words with an interested expression.
A personality that sees things through to the end once she starts… Well, isn’t she the one who came all the way to the Empire to prevent the world’s destruction?
“She let you go when you mentioned the Foundation Festival?”
“Yes. She said enjoying the Foundation Festival couldn’t be helped and let me go.”
“But the Princess can’t enjoy it either, can she?”
“That’s why she’s looking at catalogs in her room right now. She said she had high expectations for the Foundation Festival and was very disappointed.”
During the Foundation Festival period, all food was free. Since the Imperial Palace paid for those expenses, citizens happily ate and drank and were joyful.
“The Princess is very disappointed?”
“She said she heard rumors about the Foundation Festival even before coming to the Empire, and kept asking me about Foundation Festival things. Are you perhaps disappointed too, Your Majesty?”
Oreon grinned and tested the Emperor. There was a superstition that couples who dated during the Foundation Festival would definitely get married.
Emperor Gray ignored Oreon’s words and thought of Dahlia.
Did she have even one happy memory since coming here?
She fell into water trying to save the Imperial Princess, dodged a rain of arrows at the Hunting Ground, had a bomb explode before her eyes, and even went out to hunt Demon Beasts.
“Ha, this is too much.”
Setting aside the world’s destruction, it was to the point where he couldn’t stop her even if she said she was leaving the Empire right now.
Emperor Gray closed his eyes tightly, then opened them and stood up from his seat.
“Oreon, Ethan. You don’t need to follow.”
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Dahlia glanced at the distant lights faintly visible outside the window and let out a sigh.
Could those be the Night Market lights? They say the Foundation Festival Night Market is really fun.
“Annie, Cole.”
Dahlia simultaneously called Annie, who was sitting across from her, and Cole, who was standing by the door.
“Yes.”
“You two go to the Foundation Festival Night Market in my place.”
“Pardon?”
Annie asked with a bewildered expression.
Cole immediately shook his head and refused.
“I cannot. I must protect the Princess.”
“I won’t take a single step out of this room today, so don’t worry. And Hart is here too. You two go out and enjoy yourselves in my place, then tell me everything without leaving out a single detail. That’s an order.”
When Dahlia went as far as calling it an order, Annie and Cole simultaneously made eye contact and bowed their heads with expressions of having no choice.
“We obey your command.”
Knowing how much the Princess had wanted to enjoy the Foundation Festival, the two had no choice but to answer obediently.
“You can’t come back until the Night Market ends. Eat lots of delicious food, and you must sit on the Flower Swing in front of the Central Fountain and make a wish! You must!”
“Yes.”
The two left the room with resigned expressions.
After they left, Dahlia gestured to call Hart over.
“Hart, what you said before was true, right?”
Hart grinned mischievously.
“Oh my, oh my, oh my. Of course, Princess. The legend that ‘a man and woman who sit on the Flower Swing in front of the Central Fountain will become a couple’ is very credible.”
Dahlia and Hart made eye contact and shrugged their shoulders while smiling like villains.
This was what was good about festival periods. Even if they were just legends, there were plenty of things to enjoy with excited laughter.
Dahlia was looking outside with eyes dripping with regret when suddenly there was a knock.
Hart opened the door and immediately bowed upon confirming the visitor.
“I greet Emperor Gray.”
“Your Majesty? What brings you here without notice?”
Dahlia greeted him with a puzzled expression.
The Emperor looked over her dress with observing eyes.
“That dress should be fine to wear out as is.”
“Pardon?”
Having been in her room all day, Dahlia was wearing a Light Blue Comfortable Dress.
Come to think of it, the Emperor was also dressed more casually than usual in a White Shirt and Black Pants.
The Emperor smiled with the corners of his eyes curving and extended his hand.
“Dahlia, let’s go see the Foundation Festival.”
“What? I can go out?”
Dahlia’s eyes widened in surprise.
“If you take my hand.”
The Emperor gently offered while quietly extending his hand.
When she met the Emperor’s black eyes, her heart began to beat violently.
Dahlia felt heat rising to her face and quickly dropped her gaze to the ground.
Then his large hand came right into view.
Her purple eyes trembled slightly. It was a hand she had held often, but strangely, her heart was pounding today and she couldn’t readily take it.
Was it because she received an unexpected gift? That must be why her heart was beating like this, right?
Yes, that was the only reason.
Having briefly defined her strangely turbulent feelings, Dahlia carefully placed her hand on top of his.
Then she lifted her head and smiled brightly at the Emperor.
“Alright! Let’s go!”
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The carriage that had been running for a while stopped in a secluded place.
Gray got out of the carriage first, then extended his hand to Dahlia.
The two left the carriage behind and walked along a forest path thick with trees. Soon a small cabin came into view.
The knights guarding the front quietly bowed their heads to the Emperor.
Was there some rule that they couldn’t speak here?
Dahlia glanced at them with curious eyes, when the Emperor spoke.
“Let’s go in.”
Following Gray’s guidance into the cabin, Dahlia blinked in surprise.
As soon as they entered the cabin, there was another door.
“Where is this place?”
“A secret passage that leads outside the Palace.”
“I didn’t want to know about this kind of thing…”
Dahlia squinted her eyes with an anxious look, as if trying her best not to look at the door.
Watching her, the Emperor raised the corners of his mouth.
“The future Empress has many worries.”
“I’m just a temporary Empress for 3 months. Just because I know this, you won’t lock me up somewhere or—”
“And quite an imagination too.”
“I do have quite an imagination… You just made another sarcastic remark, didn’t you?”
Dahlia glared at him sharply.
“Excellent. Your perception is getting sharper too. Don’t worry. These secret passages are destroyed and rebuilt every few months.”
“I see. Phew…”
Dahlia finally let out a sigh of relief.
“Wait a moment before we go out.”
The Emperor took out a bottle that shimmered pink and looked at it with careful eyes.
“It’s supposed to change eye and hair color, so let me test it first.”
“Wait, wait…”
Change what? Dahlia tried to stop him in surprise, but the Emperor tilted the bottle and gulped down its contents.
Instantly, his black eyes changed to ordinary brown, and his hair also turned light brown.
Dahlia’s eyes widened as she looked at the Emperor’s face in amazement.
“Wow, amazing! It really changed! Where did you get something like that?”
“I made a deal with Princess Tiara before coming here.”
“Do you happen to have magic that can change a person’s appearance?”
“Of course I do.”
Princess Tiara lifted her chin proudly.
“I need two of them.”
“Are you going out with Dahlia?”
“Do I need to reveal what it’s for?”
The Emperor tilted his head and showed a sharp gaze.
“No. If I give that to you, what will Emperor Gray give me in return?”
“What do you want?”
“Please grant me one thing, whatever I ask for.”
Princess Tiara made her demand boldly with a challenging look in her eyes.
“The Empress position already belongs to Dahlia.”
“I know. I’m thinking of something else besides that.”
“Fine. I’ll agree as long as it doesn’t harm my Empire or involve something dangerous enough to risk lives. Oh, and of course, asking for my people is also not allowed.”
“Good.”
“What kind of deal did you make?”
“She asked me to grant her a favor. Just like someone else.”
When he chuckled and looked at her with a meaningful gaze, Dahlia pretended not to notice and avoided his eyes as she asked.
“So you agreed?”
Instead of answering, he shook the Pink Medicine Bottle.
“Ah…”
It was a foolish question when the result was already right in front of her eyes.
Dahlia hesitated before opening her mouth.
“Your Majesty, why do you go this far? I would be fine just staying in the Palace…”
“Weren’t you looking forward to the Founding Festival?”
“Yes, I was looking forward to it. But you didn’t need to put yourself in debt to the Imperial Princess.”
Even now, the Emperor must have his mind complicated with various matters for the Empire, and because of the Demon Beasts and the unknown entity attacking her.
She couldn’t understand why he would go this far for a mere outing. The more the Emperor treated her well, the more difficult it became to face him.
“My Empress complains even when I treat her well.”
Pleasant laughter was embedded in his low voice.
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He called her like she already his wife 😂